Ok found my first deals! Now what?

[Michael Glorioso]

Ok today I drove around for 5 hours and found 3 houses that are in my buyers criteria! Now I found out from a neighbor that one of the houses was "winterized" and the owner had been deceased for 5 years and the bank owns the house and hasn't tried to see it or anything in 5 years! How would I go about the next step here? The rest of this post is a little extra I just wanted to share my newbie scare story.... Oh and might I add for a bit of newbie humor, that I checked on a house that looked abandoned so I knocked on the door to see if anyone was home... No one answered so I looked in the window to see an old lady laying perfectly still with her mouth open!! I knocked harder, worried about the old lady and still no movement.. I didn't know what to do.. My girl friend suggested that I call 911 and report it. So we did.. The cops came with an ambulance and when they knocked I thought they was going to break the window.. Next the old lady woke up and gave the cops a thumbs up... Guess she was ok! Seemed like that had happened to her before! But luckily everything was ok!!